When we disobey God we journey downward away from His presence. Every step away from God’s way was down to Joppa, down into the ship, and down into the sides of the ship. When we are disobedient to the LORD we bring harm upon others too.

Our reading for today is Jonah 1  through 4.

Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before Me.”
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
Jonah 1:1-4